Despite widespread false claims on social media, there are several mechanisms in place to help keep elections free and fair.

“The most successful ethnic group in the US may surprise you”, the headline of a 7 June 2018 article in online magazine Ozy teased. The revelation? It’s Nigerian-Americans. To support this, the ...

A meme that has been shared over 100,000 times on Facebook claims that communism is “the ideology that killed over 100 million the last century”. The meme includes pictures of Mao Zedong, the former ...

Posts doing the rounds on Facebook in South Africa have been sharing links where social media users can supposedly apply for ...

A screenshot of what appears to be an X post by South African news organisation eNCA has been circulating widely on social ...

Tinubu used the speech to make a case for re-election, with presidential polls just three months away. But did his claims all ...

Following the commencement of the lecturers’ industrial action scheduled for Friday 2nd October 2026, the university will ...

According to a shocking claim sent to Africa Check by subscribers to our WhatsApp lines, criminals are going around offering ...

Social media posts are claiming that 80% of staff at South Africa’s roads agency are “foreign nationals”. But Sanral has ...

Posts shared on Facebook and TikTok, as well as a longer video on YouTube are titled: “Ruto Kwisha. Ruto receives ICC red ...

A job advert circulating on Facebook claims that the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) is recruiting 230,000 ...

A graphic circulating on Facebook claims that former Kenyan attorney general and current Democratic Party leader Justin ...